maim
/meɪm/ verb C2- To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. · He was maimed by a bear.
He/she/it maims · Past maimed · Past participle maimed · -ing form maiming
Verb forms
- Base form
- maim
- He/she/it
- maims
- Past
- maimed
- Past participle
- maimed
- -ing form
- maiming
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A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair.
“Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed.
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